Today? Maybe not. But I'm talking about the future.
And many factories are almost entirely automated now, anyway. You don't have guys lined up beside a conveyor belt tightening screws like in the 1950s.
Also many manufacturing companies are already using AI[0] and investing in it[1].
So yeah. Laugh all you want. I get it. But companies are willing to move heaven and earth and boil the oceans to make it happen, so if it can, it will.